# What do you see when you open your bedroom window. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663 "2013-08-31T15:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/81 "2013-09-05T22:02:22Z")
Grass. Then trees. Then a corn field. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/82 "2013-09-05T22:12:42Z")
At the moment? This: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vilnius\_TV\_tower.jpg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vilnius_TV_tower.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/83 "2013-09-06T13:57:55Z")
If I look out the bedroom window on the side of my house, I see the National Cathedral all lit up in the distance. It sounds weird but this thread made me kind of remember that and take some time last night just to look out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/84 "2013-09-06T21:29:04Z")
I see you! Not really, but that would be creepy, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/85 "2013-09-06T23:11:33Z")
The Caribbean Sea. I wake early for work and frequently watch the sun rise over the water. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/86 "2013-09-06T23:48:50Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Foreground: backyard. Background: farm field (Corn this year). Distance: power lines, trees, sky. [![](https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y452/bobot13/backfrigginyard_zps314c82e2.jpg?t=1378511174) ](https://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y452/bobot13/backfrigginyard_zps314c82e2.jpg?t=1378511174) Did I do this right? I sure hope I didn’t link to a picture of my … ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/87 "2013-09-07T23:39:36Z")
My bedroom doesn’t have any windows. I have a skylight and I leave it open most of the time. So…the California sky. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/88 "2013-09-08T00:47:45Z")
The bedroom windows for other condos, the stairwells that serve those condos, and our parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/89 "2013-09-08T01:13:23Z")
> [@Iggy](#): > > The Caribbean Sea. > > I wake early for work and frequently watch the sun rise over the water. I like Caribbean sunrises and sets. Can I ask what island you get to view from? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/90 "2013-09-08T01:26:34Z")
Downtown, then the Mississippi River, then Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/91 "2013-09-08T01:33:17Z")
My garden, the chicken house made out of antique doors, and beyond that, the forest. ---
**Author:** ![Psychopants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Psychopants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psychopants)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/92 "2013-09-08T01:33:31Z")
Tidal Potomac river. Sometimes, watermen emptying their crab pots in the early am. Other boats now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/93 "2013-09-08T03:18:53Z")
Thirty feet of grass, a row of trees, then a field with soybeans in it this year. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/94 "2013-09-08T03:28:23Z")
In summer, the Pride of Barbados shrubs reach from ground to eaves, and keep the afternoon western sun from cooking me. In the winter, the shrubs are gone (cut back) and I see the wooded settlement basin across the cup-de-sac. Currently there is a herd of javelin hanging out there, and I watch them come back in the morning to settle down and nap for the day. Late comers have to shoulder in and that elicits groans, grumbles and squeals from the ones already there. Entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Daffyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daffyd/32/8923_2.png) [@Daffyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daffyd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/95 "2013-09-08T14:02:43Z")
A 12 foot papaya plant covered in papayas, a couple of banana plants, four plumerias, three or four different kinds of palms, three kinds of guava trees, a mango tree, some giant birds of paradise, a passion fruit vine, two pineapple plants, some bougainvillia, a few hibiscus bushes, a curry leaf bush, a lemon tree, 12 mandarin orange trees - and usually, our two dogs running around seeing how much damage they can do! And depending on the time of day, flocks of green parrots flying by, screaming and screeching. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/96 "2013-09-08T20:27:47Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I like Caribbean sunrises and sets. Can I ask what island you get to view from? Grand Cayman. Not a bad way to wake up. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/97 "2013-09-08T20:52:42Z")
My bedroom is on the top floor of a 6 level house, in a wooded area, so I am right up in the trees. Out the east windows I see ash, maple, oak and Douglas fir; below are cherry trees. Out the west window is oak, Douglas fir, western red cedar, rhododendrons, and a couple of neighboring houses. As nice as it is, I envy those of you waking to tropical scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/98 "2013-09-08T21:11:55Z")
A couple of big old oak trees, some crabapple trees, a few unidentified bushes, some grass, the street, and the apartment complex’s fitness center. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/99 "2013-09-08T22:16:30Z")
Window? My Propane tank, my neighbor driveway, carport/house. I keep the curtains drawn 99% time. Back Door? Deck, back yard with rabbits grazing, a few trees and some other neighbors houses in the background ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-see-when-you-open-your-bedroom-window/667663/100 "2013-09-09T18:12:45Z")
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